I think its a very strange question that I have to defend myself. I don’t feel that. You are all my guests, it’s not the other way around, that’s how I feel.

You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance

Unfortunately, on one or both of my shoulders sits lots of anxiety and that is a controlling factor in my life.

Even if you feel all right, tell the actors you don't have full power, and they will help you.

I am crazy about my own films. The films I've just made I'm crazy about them. But then I don't see them for many years. It's like when you get a new child you're very crazy about this child but then after a few years you're like, "what was its name again?"

I'm not a woman! Let's make that very clear! Oh I don't know, maybe I am. I am an American woman. Or 65 percent of me is.

That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them